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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It has nothing to do with communism though. Nothing would survive it. It doesn't require zero opposition, but any functioning government can't survive well with most of the world trying to collapse it. With that said, Cuba is doing fairly well despite that.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It just makes it sound dubious that it would ever work unless this opposition suddenly vanished. I know the theory was (is) that eventually situation would be such that despite that opposition, it should triumph. But I guess that situation hasn't been reached.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if there'd would be quite as much opposition today. There'd be some obviously, but when the USSR was growing everyone was so much more invested in "stopping the spread of socialism."

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think there's as much vocal opposition now because it's not being taken as a serious threat right now. If that were to change, I'm sure opposition would ramp up.